sweepthefloor
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I agree and I empathize with the night shifters, they are usually shorter staffed and have 'new nurses' staffing. I never understood why they would hire new graduates for the night shift.I did days and nights. Days are way busier than nights ever wanted to be. But nights ends up with trainwrecks with none of the departments you need in house to help out and even fewer doctors.
It's bad both on days and nights just depending on your patients and how sick they are.
Luckily, for our night shifters they have 24/7 surgical support and residency. CT scan 24 hours, dopplers, and the ability to drop CVC lines via the resident or surgeon. There's no 'calling in' interventional radiology. There may be only one senior resident covering night shift but they manage.
They also have to deal with the confusion and sun-downing patients. I wouldn't want to work a night if they paid me tons of extra money. I like to sleep at night.